The Concentration of High-Value-Added Manufacturing

Bibliographic Data

ID4817366
AuthorsAllan Pred (corresponding author)
Year1965
Volume41
Issue2
Pages108
Publication date1965-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/142594
OpenAlexW2334134139
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Ws yHY are some industries spatially concentrated? Why does the nucleation of certain manufactures show a greater proclivity for some areas rather than others? What forces counteract the impetus toward concentration? These questions are not easily answered, nor is it likely that they are reducible to simple unassailable truths; for even as August L6sch, perhaps the most abstract of the location theory titans, remarked: Concepts like production orientation or transport orientation merely describe a location; they do not explain it. The reasons that actually motivate an entrepreneur explain, to be sure, though they do not always convince; an exact calculation of the most important possibilities would be convincing but extraordinarily difficult and, strictly speaking, impossible. These broad, intractable questions, however, are not totally unanswerable or insurmountable. A partial solution is feasible if a limited number of industries are studied and no more than admittedly confined generalizations are sought. Here the objective is limited to exploring the degree and kind of geographic concentration which is most characteristic of high-value-added industries

Business · Statistics · Value (mathematics) · Global Trade and Competitiveness · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues · Mathematics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub